Church of Saint Michael
CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1312016
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1312016
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL, CHURCH ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aspley Heath
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 92858 35343
Details
SP 9235-9335 ASPLEY HEATH CHURCH ROAD 6/32 1.3.72 Church of Saint Michael - II* Parish church, 1868 by Henry Clutton, patron the Duke of Bedford. Some reworking 1889 by Sir Arthur Blomfield. Coursed limestone with ashlar dressings. Clay tile roofs. Chancel, N gable block and vestry, nave, N and S aisles, N chapel, S porch. Loosely Gothic and Tudor motifs. Almost all windows have curious tracery, formed by intersecting circles, truncated just beyond intersection. Most are under square heads. Plain parapets to most blocks with gargoyle waterspouts at intervals. Cross finials to most gables, Chancel:E elevation has 3 elongated pointed-arched single lights, central one taller, N elevation has 3-light window, outer lights blind: S elevation has similar window to E and 2 2-light windows to W. Internally 2 SW windows are set in pointed-arched 2-bay blind arcade, matched by similar blind arcade to N. N gable block:2-storeyed. Lower room has plain 3-light N window. Upper room has large rose window with cross of 2 mullions and 2 transoms and trefoils similar to cusping elsewhere. Integral chimney stack to gable apex with linked polygonal shafts. Single-storeyed vestry block within NE angle has pointed-arched E door and 3-light window. Nave: 5-bay round-arched arcades on slender columns to both sides. W end has 2 long pointed-arched single lights. These flank a substantial 5-stage buttress. Supported by buttress, at gable apex, is partially projecting circular bell-turret. Bell- stage has single lights similar to those elsewhere. Small stone spire pierced by small rectangular slits. N and S aisles: each has 2 4-light windows. Steeply pitched roof extends over nave and aisles. N chapel: projects from E end of N aisle. 2 3-light N windows. Slender column and corbels support moulded timber posts, lintel and curved braces, forming 2-bay arcade onto N aisle. S porch: to W end of S aisle. Tall, gabled, with pointed archway surmounted by small single light. Side elevations have single lights. Interior: fairly simple. Chancel has barrel-vaulted roof. Open timber roof to nave and aisles, the timbers substantial and simply moulded. Chancel has piscina and sedilia with cusped pointed arches. Glass of 1890 to chancel E window and N chapel NE window. N chapel has timber screen with heavy cusping and slender colonnettes.
Listing NGR: SP9285835343
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38135
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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